Leo, What Microphone do you use for Videos?

[Mrkvn8]

Looking to Documentaries and would love the name of it. 

 

Thanks a lot, Leo

[aurum]

@Mrkvn8

Why do you need Leo's mic? It might not even be appropriate if you're doing documentaries.

[Girzo]

That's probably a trade secret. 

[Rilles]

Before you buy an expensive mic.

1.Proper Breathing

2.Good tonality

3.Good projection

4.Mixing your voice after youve recorded

 

Compare Leos blog videos and his Youtube videos and youll see how different a relaxed talking voice vs a projected voice is.

Edited January 15, 2019 by Rilles

[Mrkvn8]

@aurum thank you for your input. Proper research and preparation is necessary. 

Thank you, Aurum.

[Mrkvn8]

@Rilles thank you. 

 

I found mixing was the the deal breaker. Thanks for these key points, Rilles!

[outlandish]

*Room acoustics*  are really important. Something Leo absolutely nails in his videos, and which a lot of amateurs overlook when they shoot videos.

If you pay attention to the sound in his videos, it's really clear, free from reverbs and echoes of the room he's in. Not sure if he's acoustically treated his recording booth, or if he just has a lot of sound-absorbing stuff in his room (bookshelves, sofas, curtains, and so on help with reflections), but either way, his recordings are very acoustically neutral, which is a good thing for intelligibility and clarity.

If you're doing a youtube channel or something, pay attention to that. It will make more difference than having an expensive kick ass mic. If you have a great mic in a shit room, you'll just be picking up muddy acoustics in greater clarity.

[Sahil Pandit]

@outlandish Indeed. I have a podcast mic and it picks up EVERYTHING...

So i had to take the clock out of my room.

Tik tok tik tok... 

[-Rowan]

• Acoustically Treated Room
• Speaking Voice Well Prepared
• High-Quality mic such as  Neumann U89 
• Strong signal going into a High-Quality Audio Interface such as a Focusrite Octopre 
• Professional mixing with a high-quality EQ plugin such as the UAD Cambridge 
• High-Quality Compressor such as an 1176 or LA-2A software plugin
• Any other processing such as subtle width enhancement, noise gating 
• Rendering your recording as a .WAV

That should have you covered.

Sincerely,

An Audio Engineer type 

[thesmileyone]

But in respect to the law of diminishing returns, a good mic, with a spit filter, and some sound deadening / reshaping on the walls is about all you need.